release: 0.44.0

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Automated Release PR

0.44.0 (2026-03-20)

Full Changelog: v0.43.0...v0.44.0

Features

• Add GPU viewport presets and GPU encoder defaults (0735b45)
• Adds description to OAS spec for docs about delta_x, delta_y (9841aac)
• Drop headless GPU support and disable pooling (cda8f94)
• Enhance managed authentication with CUA support and new features (ece76c2)
• expose smooth drag mouse movement via public API (c6f6862)
• Rename hardware acceleration UI/docs wording to GPU acceleration (9ee4d0c)

Bug Fixes

• deps: bump minimum typing-extensions version (fd55947)
• pydantic: do not pass by_alias unless set (a815a82)
• sanitize endpoint path params (9b55d2b)

Chores

• internal: tweak CI branches (8781c7d)

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Medium Risk
Adds new auth update and login-submit parameters and changes how all resource paths are constructed/encoded, which could affect request routing and backwards compatibility if edge-case IDs were previously accepted. Most changes are generated/client-side, but they touch many API endpoints and auth flows.

Overview
Bumps the SDK to v0.44.0 (manifest, pyproject.toml, _version.py, changelog) and updates CI branch filters.

Introduces a new _utils.path_template() helper to percent-encode and reject dot-segment path params, and switches many resources to use it instead of f-strings to sanitize endpoint construction.

Expands the auth connections API with PATCH /auth/connections/{id} (update) and extends submit parameters (sign_in_option_id, sso_provider) plus updated docs; also tweaks browser/pool docs around GPU defaults/presets and updates typing-extensions minimum + a Pydantic model_dump kwargs fix (only pass by_alias when set).

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[stainless-app]

🧪 Testing

To try out this version of the SDK:

pip install 'https://pkg.stainless.com/s/kernel-python/ece76c2f7d2a20af7c00988d161c4e275623aaac/kernel-0.43.0-py3-none-any.whl'

Expires at: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:34:00 GMT
Updated at: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:34:00 GMT

[masnwilliams]

lgtm

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🤖 Release is at https://github.com/kernel/kernel-python-sdk/releases/tag/v0.44.0 🌻